ON SON OF GOD AND SON OF MAN, You were incarnate, did suffer, rise, ascend for my sake; Your departure was not a token of separation but a pledge to return; Your Word, promises, sacraments, show your death until you come again, That day is no horror to me, for your death has redeemed me,…
by Jordan Sekulow, Washington Post 2011 began with some bleak news for Muslim-Christian relations around the world. Recent attacks against churches in Iraq, Nigeria and Egypt have killed dozens of Christian worshippers. Meanwhile, the Pakistani government is standing by the country’s controversial blasphemy law which critics say threatens religious minorities. How should political and religious…
by Maggie Michael, AP In the weeks before the New Year’s Day suicide bombing of an Egyptian church, al-Qaida-linked websites carried a how-to manual on “destroying the cross,” complete with videos on how to build a bomb and the locations of churches to target — including the one that was attacked. They may have found…
by Melanie Phillips As we all know by now, Israel has lost the battle for public opinion in the West. Even the Israel government is now acknowledging this fact. Israel and its defenders have been outclassed and outmaneuvered in a war of the mind being waged on a battleground it never even acknowledged it was…
Melanie Phillips said: “So while Muslims deny the Holocaust, they claim that Israel is carrying out a holocaust in Gaza. Antisemitism is central to Jewish experience in Europe; Muslims claim that ‘Islamophobia’ is rife throughout Europe. Israel gives all Jews the ‘right of return’ to Israel on account of the unique reality of global Jewish…
by Jeffery Goldberg, Atlantic Monthly I’ve been struck over the past couple of days by the lackadaisical coverage of what seems to be the most important story coming out of the Middle East right now — the terrible attack early on New Year’s Day on a Coptic church in Egypt, in which 21 Christians were…
Each week we give a suggested series of scripture readings for the the coming week. It begins on the Sabbath (Saturday) with the weekly Torah portion and the accompanying Haftorah reading. It concludes with a compatible portion from the Gospels and the New Testament. For the Sabbath of January 8, 2011. Torah Portion: “Bo”…
by Atty. Elyakim Haetzni, Arutz 7 Well-known columnist Thomas Friedman summed up his recent article, Reality Check, in the New York Times as follows: “The most important thing President Obama and the Secretary of State…can do now is…to simply get out of the picture…America has to get off the road…”. Putting aside our reservations about…
by Chana Ya’ar, Arutz 7 Iran’s state-run Fars News Agency (FNA) is accusing Israel’s international intelligence agency of killing the country’s nuclear scientists. The news agency quoted a report posted Wednesday on the IranNuc.ir website that said the Mossad “has a long record in assassinating Arab and Muslim scientists in collaboration with its U.S. and…
by JPost Staff Israel needs to reexamine its policies and initiate steps to build trust with the Palestinian Authority so that negotiations can be restarted, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak told Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday. The two leaders met in Sharm e-Sheikh and held a lengthy, friendly and comprehensive discussion that focused on the…